Tejas Gawande
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Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
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People who read widely and attentively—and then publish the results of their reading—are also arguably performing research as a leisure activity. Maria Popova, who started writing a blog in 2006—now called The Marginalian —which collects her reading across literature, philosophy, psychology, the sciences. Her blog feels like leisurely research, to... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Building thoughts and ideas over decades
Exceptional people grow up in exceptional milieus
This seems to be true for >95 percent of the people I looked at.
These naked apes, the humans, are intensely social animals. They obsessively internalize values, ideas, skills, and desires from the people who surround them. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exceptional... See more
This seems to be true for >95 percent of the people I looked at.
These naked apes, the humans, are intensely social animals. They obsessively internalize values, ideas, skills, and desires from the people who surround them. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exceptional... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Childhoods of Exceptional People
The adults had high expectations of the children; they assumed they had the capacity to understand complex topics, and therefore invited them into serious conversations and meaningful work, believing them capable of growing competent rapidly.
In a pre-AI world, in order to build an application, you needed to reduce your idea to a process—a set of rules by which your software would operate to accomplish the goal you set. Sometimes this was easy; for example, a customer relationship manager like Salesforce is naturally reducible to rules.
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for... See more
In a post-AI world, you can build applications for... See more
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Process vs. intuition
A beautiful thought from Estée Lauder on seizing the moments in life that matter the most. https://t.co/KlWQOn2Zvj
People make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks, and embracing every possibility.
"Remember you will have good seasons and bad seasons—you can't control the weather, only be prepared for it."
No matter how helpless you feel, there's always something you can do to set yourself up for success. Consider your positioning and how you can make tweaks that will put you in an advantageous spot for whatever season may come.
5 Life Changing Lessons from My Favorite Book
youtube.comPlay is unlocked when we lower the stakes. (Relax for the same results)
I’ll first note the Latin phrase solvitur ambulando meaning “it is solved by walking.” The phrase is attributed to both St. Augustine and the Greek philosopher, Diogenes. The sense of it, as I take it, is that when you are stuck on something, you should get up and take a walk. By the act of walking you somehow allow your mind to think more freely... See more
The Ambling Mind
Walk to allow your mind to think more freely and creatively
Obsession > Talent